Detective Thompson posted:

So the BTR ran the light here, right? Or do flashing green lights mean something else in Russia? Either way, I feel like the driver that got hit will be the one held responsible.

Bip Roberts posted:

Are you eating paint chips?

Fasdar posted:

I can't wait to see what China's millenials get up to.

Edit: Seriously though, is anyone here read up on lead exposure and the various neurological and psychological symptoms induced? Because I may know 30 million people or so who may have been exposed to high lead levels and are showing signs of lowered impulse control, paranoia, diminished cognition, and a loss of empathy, and I'm a bit worried something might be going on!

PhazonLink posted:

Thomas Midgley Jr. is a fucker and probably a good top 3 time traveler murder target

Three-Phase posted:

My parents told me it was “wall candy”.

a kitten posted:

https://twitter.com/chrismaddern/status/970842500750630919

Say Nothing posted:

Buff Skeleton posted:

How would fire escape work in a rotating skyscraper? I imagine you'd have the actual fire stairwell in the center along with elevators (and all the rotating machinery), but if there are any interior walls up against the central column, then bad times happen if your floor's fire doors are obscured. So I'm guessing no walls against the center, and a 360-degree radius around it which is all open so you can always access the elevators / doors regardless of rotation.

Grem posted:

How does the plumbing work? What happens if your toilet is above someone else's bedroom?

Nenonen posted:

The exterior aligns into a fire escape staircase.

Buff Skeleton posted:

How would fire escape work in a rotating skyscraper? I imagine you'd have the actual fire stairwell in the center along with elevators (and all the rotating machinery), but if there are any interior walls up against the central column, then bad times happen if your floor's fire doors are obscured. So I'm guessing no walls against the center, and a 360-degree radius around it which is all open so you can always access the elevators / doors regardless of rotation.

Johnny Aztec posted:

It's not like he is some cackling evil scientist. Everything he did worked really well, for what it was intended for.

Johnny Aztec posted:

It's not like he is some cackling evil scientist. Everything he did worked really well, for what it was intended for.

Nenonen posted:

Imagine what that will sound like either immediately after being built, or after a decade of sun, wind and dust corroding, bending and jamming the moving parts.

Arrhythmia posted:

I imagine they're going to turn off the rotation like, a week after its built and the publicity has died down

Avenging_Mikon posted:

The second question is dumb, floor crawl spaces are a thing. The first question is drat good though. If the part the sinks and toilets are in move, the pipes can’t be hard-connected to the water system, can they? Is there a reservoir? What if you use too much water for that? Does it empty to a large pipe with slots for the pipes to pivot? That’s a hell of an engineering project.

Powered Descent posted:

My guess would be that everything would have a long section of flexible hose connecting the outer spinny bit to the fixed core. This would mean it couldn't just keep spinning forever in one direction (it would have to "rewind" when it ran out of length), but that hardly seems like a big problem. It would also solve the problem for electrical and data lines.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

https://i.imgur.com/lTo3OyP.mp4

Starman Super DX posted:

Escaping from a burning sky scraper down procedurally generated fire escapes sounds like a fun new indie game

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Can't, it's physically blocking the tap from turning.

Australian politicians have been arguing nonstop over the National Broadband Network since at least 2010, it's all a giant loving mess. Originally it was supposed to be a fibreoptics network that went all the way to people's houses (FTTP - fibre to the premises) providing speeds somewhere between 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s but then we had a change of government and they went "Eh, the internet isn't all that important is it? And putting into fibreoptic cables to every single house in Australia is going to be way too expensive!" so they downgraded the maximum speed to 25 Mbit/s and went with a FTTN (Fibre to the node) system where they installed fibreoptic cable to a cabinet somewhere in the neighbourhood and kept the good old fashioned copper cables to the individual houses. And that's why Australia's internet speed are currently ranked below Guam, Belarus and Slovenia. But hey, we used to be ranked below Kazakhstan but we recently moved one spot above them!

So the NBN network is poo poo, everyone knows it's poo poo, everyone knows it'll need to be replaced at some point in the future at great expense so it's a total waste of money, and the government are only going along with the scheme because of election promises even though it's a lovely cheap version of the previous government's plan. The workmen out in the field who are installing the NBN boxes all day long are also aware of all this and they obviously don't give a poo poo about the work:

Ooh you can barely see it, I wouldn't even know it was there if you didn't point it out!

They don't even warn people that they're about to attach NBN equipment to their houses, they just walk into their yard, bolt a weird plastic box to the front of their house and leave. You can imagine how some people feel about that:
http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3069265/couple-furious-over-nbn-cable-installation/
http://www.southcoastregister.com.au/story/3150801/nbn-rollout-riles-some-residents/

boner confessor posted:

the biggest problem i see with it is that it allows you, the resident, to choose your view and freely rotate your unit... but you're not the only unit on the floor. so is everyone constantly trying to rotate the same floor, fighting their neighbors input?

Mustached Demon posted:

Just that everything he made had a nasty side effect of being really really bad for civilization.

Except his contraption to deal his disability. That turned out to be a net gain for society.

shame on an IGA posted:

oh god this gives me flashbacks to the sub-harbor-freight tier travelling tool show that was trying to sell taps with visible mold parting lines

a kitten posted:

https://twitter.com/chrismaddern/status/970842500750630919

a kitten posted:

A visit to my hometown prompted me to look up a nearby bridge i remembered.
It's a railway bridge over the Missouri, pictured here:

quote:

Although a long bridge with one-way traffic and shared with railroad trains should have been spectacularly hazardous, a 1981 study found that it was "so dangerous that it [was] safe" because drivers were extraordinarily cautious when crossing it.

oohhboy posted:

I never not mock my Australian counterparts for their poo poo internet, gloat about my fibre to the door and good service(??!) for most part from the teleco. One of them is moving house but for the next 2 months he effectively has no internet unless he wants to plow through his mobile data to game. Technically he does have wired internet but somehow by a couple meters he has a connection so bad that has to be shared to the neighbours according to him it is expected to get 1KB/s, 25% the speed of 56K. While it seems to be an hyperbole and I can't figure out how that could happen but he isn't the type to lie. I get endless bitching and stories from them as to how bad it is from plenty of other people. Anecdotes not evidence etc this is 2018, wtf.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3069265/couple-furious-over-nbn-cable-installation/

quote:

Mrs Youd said that she did not know if they had received a letter, but any mail that arrives addressed to ‘‘The Resident’’ does not get opened.
‘‘If they want to tell us something, they should have the common courtesy to put our name on the letter,’’ Mrs Youd said.
‘‘They said they had sent a letter, we don’t know if we received the letter, we don’t think we did.
‘‘We would have made arrangements that somebody was here and we would have also saved them the time it took them to get under the house.’’

Cable Guy posted:

Australian internet is so bad for gaming that roles are often excluded to Australians in squads from different countries. In Eve (a terrible spaceship game)™ for instance, if you were camping a gate with a group of goons, you'd not likely be picked as a drone trigger because no matter how fast your twitch reflexes were, you'd still have to make up for lag. On the other hand though, going through gate camps was marginally easier because game mechanics meant the lag was now in your favour.

gently caress Australian Internet. gently caress it in the urethra with a rusty nail...